Today, on January 20th, 5.46% of 2024 will have passed. However, some people have already run out of luck this year.
So in order to remind you that we always have to expect the unexpected, we put together a collection of unfortunate pictures, depicting folks’ struggles with the weather, technology, cars, and pretty much every other facet of the modern world.
I guess it’s true what they say: life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Continue scrolling to check out the images and don’t miss the chat we had with Manhattan psychotherapist and performance coach Jonathan Alpert — you’ll find it in between the mishaps.
#1 Got Off Work To No Road Home
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#2 Worked 12 Hours Cleaning Toilets And Can’t Take A Shower Because Our Water Smells Like Feces
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#3 Five Days Into The Year And I’m Already Done
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#4 We Don’t Consider You Luggage ‘Lost’, We Like To Think It’s Off On An Adventure
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#5 See The Blue Light? Yeah Thats My House
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#6 My Week In 3 Pictures
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#7 So I’m Watching My Brothers Dog For The Week And He Went After A Tin Of Chocolate Up High On The Sneaker Shelf
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#8 Passing A Kidneystone On My First Day Of Work In The Bathroom Before Our Safety Meeting Where I Had To Meet Everyone. 4mm Stone Passed After 5 Weeks From First Sign
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#9 Starting The New Year With A Collapsed Lung. At Least It Should All Be Uphill From Here
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#10 Happy New Year Indeed
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#11 My Car Window Was Broken Into, Im Completely Broke And There Was Nothing To Steal From My Car
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#12 Update From Yesterday, We Are Definitely Not Getting Out For A Few Days
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#13 Just Got To Our Hotel… At Least They Left The Lug Nuts
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#14 Got Bitten By A Bat And Spent The First Day Of 2024 Getting Rabies Shots
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#15 Reckless Driver Crashes Into A House
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#16 Owch
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#17 Did This Annoyingly Difficult Prize Puzzle Just To Find Out After That It Was Used And The Code Had Already Been Redeemed
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#18 Somebody Rummaged Through Nearly All The Packages In My Apartment Mail Room On New Years Day
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#19 Our 60+ Year Old Birch Fell On Our House
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#20 Dental Crown Popped Off At 10:30p New Years Eve. Yay
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#21 Good Friend Of Two Years Ends Friendship
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#22 While Trying To Open Some Tuna, I Accidentally Dropped The Can
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#23 My Mom’s Ceiling Collapsed On New Year’s Eve
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#24 My Wife And I Rented A Cabin. We Arrived To Find A Trash Bag For A Window, And Wine Service For One
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#25 I Have A Meeting At Congress And No One Showed Up
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#26 Brand New iPad Already Logged In
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#27 It’s My Daughter’s Birthday And I’ve Made Her A Cake. It’s Been Cooling Down In The Fridge. Let Me Just Check On It Real Quick
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#28 $1,199 iPhone 15 Left In The Snow While I’m At Work All Day Unable To Retrieve It
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#29 Worked Up The Courage To Go To A Bar To Try And Socialize. Even The Bar Tender Stepped Out For A Smoke
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#30 Car Broken Into Before A Snow Storm
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#31 Walked Outside This Morning To Find My Car Keyed. What A Great Start To The New Year
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#32 Stuck In A Smallest Elevator On The First Day Of The Year
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#33 I Bought A Ton Of Food For Tonight So That I Can Host Nye For Us, My Parents, And My Brother’s Family. I Also Spent All Day Yesterday Making Cupcakes, Each Filled With Lemon Curd I Made The Day Before. My Mom Now Has Food Poisoning And Can’t Come, And My Daughter Caught The Flu 🥲
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#34 Way To Start My Morning…
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#35 Got Zapped By Static Electricity From A Conveyer At Work
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#36 Came Home To My House Broken Into And Loads Of Stuff Nicked. Great Start To The Year
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#37 My House 😭
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#38 Crashed My Brand New Car Under 40k Miles Last Week 😕
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#39 The Weather Where I Live
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#40 Dominos Not At It’s Finest
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#41 Someone Forgot To Lock Their Frame
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#42 New Couch Has Cushion Velcro On The Wrong Side
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#43 Went To Goodwill Yesterday. Got A Discount At The Register, Thought It Was Because Of Tag Color. Looked At My Receipt Today And Saw This
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#44 Happy Neh Year! From The Discount Store🥲
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#45 As I Took A Picture To Show My Husband What I Was Going To Buy From Goodwill, A Lady Took The Price Tag Off To Buy It
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#46 Guess Who Forgot Their Exit Plan After Staining The Stairs. Send Help
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#47 Phone vs. Car Door
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#48 Neighbors Car E-Brake Failed And Rolled Back And Hit My House
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#49 Wife’s New Car Well Was New
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#50 I Accidentally Spilled Tinga In My New Car
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